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If China has held an allure for religious emissaries since Ricci in the 16th century, then today's Mecca is Yunnan province, which abuts Burma. It attracts Christian workers for its distance from the country's political medulla in Beijing, its poverty and its large number of isolated minority hill...
For most Europeans, Switzerland is a conservative place of bank secrecy, chocolates and luxury watches. Now another product, cannabis, is on its way to becoming as quintessentially Swiss as the multifunction penknife. Berhard Machler is one man who appreciates the new trend in diversification. Machler is a manager and founding...
For Ernst-Moritz Lipp, managing partner of Odewald & Compagnie, a German private-equity manager, all this talk about WWGD (What will Greenspan do?) was of little immediate consequence. "None of that discussion really plays a role here in Europe," he said, "which shows that Europe has really decoupled from the...
Standing in a line of grumpy fellow travelers and arguing with the gate agent might be the worst thing you can do. "Gate agents," says a former airline executive, "are processors, not problem solvers." Instead head back to the ticket counter, where the personnel tend to be less harassed and...
Kennedy's suit doesn't specifically charge Smithfield with those horrors. But his lawyers claim that environmental lawbreaking is an "integral component of [Smithfield's] institutional culture." In 1997 a U.S. district court judge fined Smithfield $12.6 million for thousands of Clean Water Act violations; in another case, a manager...